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Post by sayne on Feb 4, 2016 23:36:57 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 5, 2016 0:03:09 GMT -5
It is a nice article. Kind of highbrow. "For No One" is a great song, Paul at his best.
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Post by sayne on Feb 5, 2016 0:35:59 GMT -5
. . . Kind of highbrow . . . That's one of the things that's great about the Beatles. They can be written about in a number of ways. They can be written about in teen magazines (Tiger Beat), mainstream news magazines (Time, Newsweek), popular culture magazines (US, People), religious papers (Christian Science Monitor, L'Osservatore Romano), "high brow" periodicals (the New Yorker, the New Republic), jazz/classical/rock/country/pop music magazines, and on and on. Takes can be sublime to ridiculous, silly to esoteric, critical to fawning, intellectual to trite.
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lowbasso
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Post by lowbasso on Feb 5, 2016 12:41:13 GMT -5
For it's 23 year old composer, this song is an amazingly insightful take on grief structured inside a musical composition far beyond his years. The death of his mother had to have been a part of this song's genesis. I would put this song on the same level as "Yesterday"; Paul at the height of his musical genius. How he got there by the tender age of 23 is an enigma. Another reason why The Beatles will always remain at the top of the pecking order. Who else besides Lennon, and maybe Dylan are pulling off lyrics like this at that age? But the musical structure of the song puts Paul in a class by himself here. I don't even think he knew how good he was in this particular case.....It just came out of him like it was channeled from some higher power. And that was just one song off Revolver...One of many reasons this album is often referred to as the summit of the band as a collective unit recording. Abbey Road was an attempt to get back to this level 3 years later to close out their recording career. Debatable that they did back there as a collective unit. I don't think so. But it still was a great attempt.
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 5, 2016 21:58:27 GMT -5
Well I credit Jane Asher for a lot of Paul's greatness from late 1964 to 1968. I think "For No One" and "I'm Looking Through You"(among others) were inspired by Paul's ups and downs with a high class woman who was much better educated than Paul and did not take his shit. Linda and especially this current wife of his(what's her name, can she even speak?) were/are doormats, persons Paul could wipe his feet on every day.
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Post by coachbk on Feb 5, 2016 22:48:26 GMT -5
The author was able to express my feelings about how great "For No One" is much more eloquently than I could. I consider "For No One" as ranking right up there with "Eleanor Rigby", Paul's better known song from REVOLVER and feel both of these songs are among the very best Paul has ever written.
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Post by Panther on Feb 6, 2016 9:57:45 GMT -5
I think 'Revolver' (1966) through 'McCartney' (1969-70) is absolutely Paul's peak in every way. Obviously, he was already a great before this, but he jumps to an incredibly high level on 'Revolver'.
Really, he owns that album. George has 1 great song, 1 good song, and 1 that bores me (they play in that order); and John has mostly good songs, but by his standards not great (and 'Doctor Robert' sounds like filler). All of Paul's songs on this record are stellar -- not just stellar, but genius in extremis. And SO diverse... not one of them sounds like another.
Sadly, it was only 15 years from here to 'The Frog Chorus'.
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Post by coachbk on Feb 6, 2016 23:58:40 GMT -5
I think 'Revolver' (1966) through 'McCartney' (1969-70) is absolutely Paul's peak in every way. Obviously, he was already a great before this, but he jumps to an incredibly high level on 'Revolver'. Really, he owns that album. George has 1 great song, 1 good song, and 1 that bores me (they play in that order); and John has mostly good songs, but by his standards not great (and 'Doctor Robert' sounds like filler). All of Paul's songs on this record are stellar -- not just stellar, but genius in extremis. And SO diverse... not one of them sounds like another. Sadly, it was only 15 years from here to 'The Frog Chorus'. I think "We All Stand Together" is an excellent song! Now if you had said it would be only 5 more years until "Bip Bop" I'd agree with your point!
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